Definition of "engraftment" [engraftment]

• The act of engrafting or something engrafted (noun)

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• "Expansion of both HSCs and HPCs are essential, since the committed progenitors give rise to an immediate short term engraftment where as the primitive"
• "These cells sustained superior long term engraftment and an efficient regeneration of major lympho-myeloid lineages in the bone marrow of NOD/SCID mouse compared to the cells expanded with growth factors alone."
• "Choi CW, Kim BS, Seo JH, Shin SW, Kim YH, Kim JS (2001) Long term engraftment stability of peripheral blood stem cells cryopreserved using the dump-freezing method in a − 80 degrees C mechanical freezer with 10\% dimethyl sulfoxide."